Relationships between age, blood pressure, and retinal vessel diameters in an older population

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 2900-2904

  Leung, Harry ^a   Wang, Jie Jin ^a   Rochtchina, Elena ^a   Tan, Ava G ^a   Wong, Tien Y ^b   Klein, Ronald ^b   Hubbard, Larry D ^b   Mitchell, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MICROANGIOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA VEIN; VENULE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 0038577076     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.02-1114     Document Type: Article

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